All posts tagged "treaty"
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14.4KMassachusettsAbigail Adams Attacked Thomas Jefferson As No One Else Dared To Do
In 1804, Abigail Adams attacked Thomas Jefferson in an angry letter unlike any he had ever received. No one else ever addressed...
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20.5K2MassachusettsHow the Codfish Started the American Revolution
The American Revolution was to some extent a fight over the big, stupid, slow-moving codfish. Codfish were by far colonial New England’s...
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8.6K2New HampshireThe 1795 Trial of Samuel Livermore and John Jay
In the aftermath of the American Revolution, trade was a wild and woolly matter. The British harassed and seized American ships and...
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38.5K4New HampshireThe Mysterious Death of Tobias Lear
Tobias Lear meticulously recorded the details of George Washington’s death, but was strangely silent about the events leading to his own. As...
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14.9K11MassachusettsMassasoit Visits Plymouth for Trade and a Peace Treaty
Around 11 am on March 22, 1621, a fine warm day, two Wampanoag Indians appeared in the village of Plymouth with a...
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6.2K4MassachusettsCaleb Cushing and the Bad Luck Weathervane
Caleb Cushing famously brought a weathervane shaped like an arrow as a gift to the American consul in China in 1844. Cushing,...
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